Re: ALTER TABLE with TYPE serial does not work - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Broersma
Subject Re: ALTER TABLE with TYPE serial does not work
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Msg-id 396486430901312004g50a68c15q33b7678029132861@mail.gmail.com
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In response to ALTER TABLE with TYPE serial does not work  (Andreas Wenk <a.wenk@netzmeister-st-pauli.de>)
Responses Re: ALTER TABLE with TYPE serial does not work  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
Re: ALTER TABLE with TYPE serial does not work  (Andreas Wenk <a.wenk@netzmeister-st-pauli.de>)
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On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Andreas Wenk
<a.wenk@netzmeister-st-pauli.de> wrote:

> Why does this not work:
>
> postgres=# ALTER TABLE tab1 ALTER COLUMN nr TYPE serial;
> ERROR:  type "serial" does not exist

serial is really just "short-hand" for making an integer column use
default incrementing function.  The following will fully explain what
it is so that you can alter the column:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-SERIAL


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